"[My father] thought we would be safer here."

 

 

 

"It was after lunch, around 3:30 in the afternoon," he said.
"Alaa had just stepped outside to get water when the shells hit."

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The shells have caused unbearable damage to human life and tremendous destruction to infrastructure, the full scale of which will only be revealed when the fighting is over.”

 

“Those who use artillery weapons in Gaza cannot honestly say that they are doing all they can to avoid harming innocent civilians.”

 

 

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“That rate of fire over that period of time is astonishing. If the figures are even half right, Israel’s response was absolutely disproportionate.”

 

 

“I need to go with him. I need to go with him. My brother is alive.”

 

 

 

“I kept talking to him, but there was a big hole where his stomach used to be, and I couldn't figure out how to do it — how to hold his insides in.”